February 24, 2013

A non-random sentence from an article with the first sentence: "Political movies are expected to rake in the trophies at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony."

So... "political movies" is supposed to refer to movies with political subject matter, but they win awards because people wage a political campaign for the award.

Too much politics! Remember when it seemed like movies were counterculture or art or something like that?

The "she" in the quote in this post's title is Sasha Stone, who's quoted predicting the award winners this year won't appropriate the occasion and make political remarks: "You don’t want to turn off half of America by making jokes about Republicans."

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You don’t want to turn off half of America by making jokes about Republicans.

Seems to me humorists used to make jokes about those in power, particularly the president, back when they were funny. The poltical power was the consolation to the half of the audience that might be offended as supporters of the target of the humor's bite.

It's as though Stone cannot even conceived of the possibility that humor could be aimed at Obama or the Democrats, however.

At this point who gives a shit whether or not they rag on Republicans? We all know what they think without them saying it. We see it in their movies and tv shows every day. Drug-addled starlets fresh out of rehab, blowdried wussy men who don't go a day without a mani-pedi, closeted racist shitbag Liberal icons like Alec Baldwin, they are the core of the Democrat Party West. The more that crew of gibbering tools rags on Republicans, the better we look.

Not half. Forty-seven percent. But what difference, at this point, does it make? They didn't build that. It was a reaction to a film on YouTube. The bitter-clingers will not react well to having their guns regulated by the death panels. But remember PawPaw had high cheek bones sitting there in that empty chair passing the bill so we can know what's in it. Of course, it's simply a tax, People get the government they deserve. But, always remember to speak truth to power.

Years ago I saw a tv movie about US embassy employees hiding out in the Canadian embassy. I thought it surprisingly good for a tv movie and noted that it was made in Canada. I haven't seen Argo and wonder if any of the movie was cribbed from the Canadian one.

The only reason anyone Is talking about ARGO is that 0 DARK THIRTY was blackballed by HUAC redux - McCain, Feinstein et al - and the always detestable Harvey Weinstein and fellow travelers like Asner. What a disgrace .